Misstatement Quotes
What makes this quotation particularly funny is that “entrepreneur” is not originally an English word but was borrowed from the French. However, probably what the president was trying to express is that the French act as if they had not word or concept as they have many economic policies that discourage entrepreneurship. The President while a bright man has never been particularly gifted as an intellectual or an orator, becomes the butt of humor with this quotation. There are Bush supporters who challenge the fact that Bush actually made such a gaff, and there has been no other verification other than Baroness Williams.
Some politicians have subsequently used the phrase. For example, see {625508} .
Haig was generally not terribly eloquent but he was very well read. “Terminological inexactitude” was coined by Winston Churchill. See {625509} .
